[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

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How long since you've heard this noise:

http://youtu.be/iHW1ho8L7V8

 

I didn't feel old before. Yes, I remember when I first got internet and the computer taking 5 minutes to load one page.

 

Party lines, nineteen cents a gallon gas, and the out house.

 

knowing that if i messed the school bus that was free, it really was a three mile walk from where i lived to where my high school was.

no one knew the difference between an adding machine and a computer. adding machines were entirely mechanical. and no one i knew, had ever seen a real computer.

no human had ever walked on the moon, and no one i knew, believed anyone ever would. nor was any man made object, in space, and orbiting earth. not yet even sputnik.

 

I was born 1000 years ago, and I dare a man to tell me it isnt so.
I saw peter, paul and moses playing ring around the rosy and I dare a man to tell me it isnt so..

 

i don't remember who it is you're quoting, but i do remember reading something very much like that. it may have had something to do with a cockroach, a cat, and an old mechanical typewriter.

 

...when The Monkees were cool (well, at least for kids my age at the time). We used record their songs with a Panasonic ac/battery auto stop recorder placed in front of the tv. Auto stop was great for when you had more important things to do.

 

I remember men in metal hats coming to our door to tell us to turn the lights out because the worry was that some country -Japan or Germany might fly over and bomb us. I lived in Belmont Shores--part of Long Beach. 2nd world war.

Also when I went to the beach-(lived one block away), there were oil clumps in the surf and on the sand from sunken ships. I just thought

you always got oil on you when you went to the beach.

I remember when Raleigh bikes were the only bikes of the type most everyone uses now. Before that, about the only kind was like the one

in my gallery I had when I was 9.

 

I pretty sure its Elvis Presley. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Country_%28I%27m_10,000_Years_Old%29 I remember where I was when Elvis died, I was 7yrs old. I was also seen Elvis when I was about 5yrs old. My parents went to see Elvis, we were very close to his limo when I dropped my all day sucker it shattered near the wheels of his cars. I can only remember bits and pieces my sucker being stepped on. I was really upset ..

 

i remember when common sense was actually common

 

are you immortal? i'm pretty sure that was a couple of days before coyote created humanity.

but i do remember when most people didn't think a state of perpetual war sounded like a very good idea. and some of them even considered themselves conservatives.

i remember when people, the minority who knew what one really is, didn't think a computer was for playing war games and watching television.

 

I remember when our family got our first stereo console. It was one piece of furniture about 4-5 feet long. The speakers were probably only a yard apart. My Dad bought some sound effects records and we would sit in front of the stereo and listen as a train went from the right speaker to the left. Amazing! Life was a little more simple then. I think you had to be there.

 

I remember watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

I have my brother Eddie and my mother to thank for that. Daddy acted like he didn't want to watch them, lol.

http://youtu.be/5vVbIGR0Dkg

http://youtu.be/B-mZvHuA4lU

http://youtu.be/JC0MEF6d1eU

http://youtu.be/gJxvm5zbeBc

 

I also remember watching my mother cry all afternoon in front of the television as we watched the news about JFK being killed.

 

IsoIr....when custard was something you [or in my case,my mum] made,as opposed to snipping opening a box.

 

when wheels were square

 

...I remember watching Miami Vice and Knight Rider with my babysitter and listening to Madonna, Duran Duran, The Police and such on the radio on the bus ride to school.

 

I'm so old that I went to a segregated elementary school.

That had a special day to introduce us to the black children who would become a part of our school.

 

Im so old I remember giving my hubs my stocking cos his fan belt broke!